Shel Silverstein News

Alamo Navajo School was recently recognized for achieving the greatest progress with the Reading First program of any Bureau of Indian Education school over a two-year period, 2004-2006. For their success ...

Critics questioned whether Shel Silverstein's books were appropriate for Wisconsin elementary school libraries in the 1980s, charging they encouraged children to be disobedient, among other things.

Read over the American Library Association's list of banned books sometime. It will shock you.

Jonathan Miles is the author of the novel "Dear American Airlines." Jonathan Miles's September 2008 Playlist: 1) Flat Chested Girl from Maynardville, Bobby Bare Jr.

Demitri Thomas hasn't read Shel Silverstein, but one could say he knows "Where the Sidewalk Ends." That would be on the west side of Linden Avenue at Wildflower Street, south of Wilmer Amina Carter High School.

There isn't much about Adam Yekutieli's street art that is immediately distinguishable as Israeli, and in fact his fanciful and compassionate drawings and phrases go against much of what most would recognize as ...

Deliciously wacky, a little subversive, Shel Silverstein's poetry is a sometimes serious bit of silliness that never grows old, whether the reader is 5 or 95.

Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show's sardonic, country-flavored pop/rock made them one of the most fondly remembered acts of AM pop radio's heyday in the '70s. Although the band had a reputation as a mouthpiece for ...

Paul Smith was born in Detroit. He attended the University of Michigan, and after a failed music career, enrolled in the law school at Wayne State University.

All Things Considered contributor, music collector, and Shel Silverstein's nephew, Myers attempts to rekindle the tradition of allegorical storytelling, but aside from lighthearted reads about Adam Coil's time ...

Some things get better with time. Others remain timeless, like the poetry of Shel Silverstein.

THE GIVING TREE is not one of my favorite works by Shel Silverstein. In part because, as the man himself put it , "It's just a relationship between two people - one gives and the other takes," but also because ... via Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind

For many a young bookworm, reading consists mainly of comics, sports novels, comedic paperbacks, and similarly light-hearted fare. via Andover Townsman

When scientists announced last week that they had finished deciphering the genetic code of the platypus, the animal kingdom's greatest misfit, the results were declared profound by some and ridiculous by ... via The Free Lance-Star

“She hopes to win because she knows it will be a good thing for both libraries”

A nationwide contest - started up this spring by the Elgin's Gail Borden Public Library - could feature some local winners. via Daily Herald

“Would you kindly tell me the meaning of the poem called "Jabberwocky"?”

Maybe it's because I spent the week trying to avoid round-the-clock Reverend Wright coverage, yearning for the days before I knew the meaning of the word "superdelegate," but I found myself wandering back into ... via The Huffington Post

“Special activities like this can keep us excited about learning and coming to school”

The Page Hilltop School Poetry Caf, run by fifth-grade teacher Julie Tobin, is part of the after-school enrichment program hosted by parents and teachers in the community. via Groton Landmark

“It combines auto racing, feminism, cross-town rivalries, orphaned children, a tornado and libraries into an engaging novel.”

Mishawaka resident Lisa Felix is "hanging her hat" in a new location as the new manager of the Bittersweet Branch of the Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library. via South Bend Tribune

To the Mankato Rotary Club for donating more than 600 copies of a hard-cover book to all third-graders in the Mankato Area School District. via Free Press

“French flies eat French fries.”

As National Poetry Month waxes on, don't forget the children. Happily, wonderful poetry books for children abound. via Tacoma News Tribune